Richard T. Slone

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Richard T. Slone is a self-taught artist residing in the United States. He was born in 1974 in Newton-in-Furness, Lancashire, a northern English town.^{[citation needed]} His work has been commissioned and purchased by many global celebrities, as well as used for large scale events all over the world.^[1]

Slone's art has become popular with collectors including Donald Trump, Hugh Hefner, Glenn Schaeffer, Muhammad Ali and Nelson Mandela.^{[citation needed]} His work has been on the covers of magazines, including the Ring Magazine, KO Magazine and World Boxing Magazine. His work has been used by many companies and advertising agencies, including Everlast. He is the official artist of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. In 2007 Slone's artwork was used by the Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC to create a clothing line named 'Ultimate'.

Slone has painted portraits of people including Nelson Mandela, Hugh Hefner, Donald Trump and Lennox Lewis. He has also painted fighters from the UFC, including a landscape of Chuck Liddell entitled 'The Iceman Cometh', and a landscape of Andrei Arlovski vs. Paul Buentello, which was originally painted as two separate portraits but pieced together and made into an official licensed UFC poster.^{[citation needed]}